Dictionary Entry
gig
gig is a 3-letter English word with 15 senses as noun and transitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A fiddle. Face value is 5 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
3 letters · Scrabble 5 · Words With Friends 7 · 15 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A fiddle.
- 2transitive verb
To engender.
- 3noun
A kind of spear or harpoon. See Fishgig.
- 4transitive verb
To fish with a gig.
- 5noun
A playful or wanton girl; a giglot.
- 6noun
A top or whirligig; any little thing that is whirled round in play.
- 7noun
A light carriage, with one pair of wheels, drawn by one horse; a kind of chaise.
- 8noun
A long, light rowboat, generally clinkerbuilt, and designed to be fast; a boat appropriated to the use of the commanding officer; as, the captain's gig.
- 9noun
A rotatory cylinder, covered with wire teeth or teasels, for teaseling woolen cloth.
- 10noun
a booking for musicians
"they played a gig in New Jersey"
- 11noun
small two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage; with two seats and no hood
- 12noun
tender that is a light ship's boat; often for personal use of captain
- 13noun
long and light rowing boat; especially for racing
- 14noun
a cluster of hooks (without barbs) that is drawn through a school of fish to hook their bodies; used when fish are not biting
- 15noun
an implement with a shaft and barbed point used for catching fish
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